Leg for bath-tubs



(No Model.)

J. H. STEVENS, Jr. LEG POR BATH TUBS, 6.0.

Patented Pe-b. 4, 1896.

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lorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. STEVENS, JR., OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

VI I-:c FOR BATH-Tues, sbo.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,969, dated February4, 1896. Application filed January l5, 1895. Serial No. 534,965. (Nomodel.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. STEVENS, J r., of Cambridge, in the countyof Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Legs for Bath-Tubs and other Articles, of whichthe following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification.

My invention relates to legs for bath-tubs' and other articles, andespeciallyT to the attachment of anon-corrodible foot to a metallic legand is an improvement upon the invention described in anotherapplication of mine, filed October 29, 1894, Serial No. 527,283; and itconsists in certain novel features of construction, arrangement andcombination of parts, which will be readily understood by reference tothe description of the accompanying drawings, and to the claim heretoappended and in which my invention is clearly pointed out.

Figure l of the drawings is a sectional elevation of a leg, illustratingone form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the non-corrodible foot.Fig. 3 is an inverted sectional plan of the metal portion of the legwith the non-corrodible foot removed, the cuttingplane being on line ocon Fig. l.

In the drawings, A is the metallic portion of the leg, which may be madein one piece or in two pieces adjustably connected together, as may bepreferred, andB is a foot of glass, porcelain, or other non-corrodiblematerial secured to the metallic leg in the manner hereinafterdescribed.

In carrying out my invention I form the foot B preferably of glass orporcelain, and to facilitate its construction and cheapen its cost Iform it with arecess or cavity in its upper side. The foot B is providedwith a circumferential groove Z2 near its upper end and is fitted to asocket a of a hemispherical form, formed in the lower end of the metalleg A, but only partially filling said socket, as shown in Fig. l. Thesocket d has formed just above its lower edge or rim an annular groove aand that portion of the foot B which extends above said groove a bearsclosely against the inner wall of the socket, except that at a pluralityof points upwardly-extending channels c c are formed in the inner wallof said socket or recess leading from said groove a to points above theupper end of the foot B, as shown in Figs. l andl 3.

C is a packing of a plastic or semiliquid nature, preferably acombination of plasterof-paris and cement, applied so as to fill theentire space of the socket d not occupied by the foot B, the grooves aand b and the cavity in said foot, and extend upward into the centralbore d2 of the lower part of said leg, as shown in Fig. l.

In uniting the leg and foot according to my invention the socket in theleg A has placed therein a suitable quantity 4of the plastic orsemiliquid packing material', the hole a2 being` temporarily closed toprevent said semiliquid running to waste. Then the two parts-the leg andfoot-are forced together by pressure, when the plastic packing becominghard the two parts areiirmly secured together.

I claim- In a leg for bath-tubs and other articles, the combination of ametallic leg-body having a socket or recess in its lower end; an annulargroove or enlargement in the wall of said socket just inside of itsmouth; a noncorrodible foot tted to said socket so as to bear upon thewall of said socket above the annular groove in said socket, but onlypartially filling the same; a circumferential groove formed on said footnear its upper end and substantially opposite the annular groove in theinner wall of said socket; a plurality of passages connecting theannular space inclosed by said annular grooves with the space above saidfoot; and a packing iilling the entire space in said socket not occupiedby said foot including said annularl grooves and the passages leadingtherefrom to the space above said foot.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 7th day of January, A. D.1895.

JOHN H. s'rEvENs, JR. l

Witnesses:

N. C. LOMBARD, WALTER E. LOMBARD.

